In the show, the high school teenager struggles with bullying and a litany of other problems. She slits her wrists, but not before leaving behind 13 tapes for her peers — one for each person who somehow affected her decision to kill herself.

Experts say the show has ignited a heated debate: that it either brings up suicide as an important topic of discussion, or encourages it for impressionable teens.

Jonathan Singer, author of “Suicide in Schools” and a board member of the American Association of Suicidology, likens the show to a fork.

“You can either use it to eat salad,” he said, “or you can use it to stab somebody with it.”

He said school districts are absolutely doing the right thing about alerting parents to the show.

“Their intention was to have this be a suicide prevention piece, but they missed the mark,” Singer said of the show’s creators. “They in fact did something that could increase risk for kids already at risk for suicide.”

Singer said there’s 30 years of research to show that “graphic and sensationalized” depictions of suicide in the media increase instances of suicide in the months following those images.

Netflix has apparently heard the concern — the service announced it will add a viewer warning before the first episode for those who are about to start watching the series, USA Today and other news outlets reported this week.

But Palo Verde High senior Simran Sodhi, whose brother killed himself last year at age 13, believes the show serves a strong purpose.

“Personally, I actually enjoyed the show just because suicide isn’t really in the media a lot,” she said. “I feel like the media tries to (steer) away from it just because it’s a very sensitive topic.”

She said the show can help kids understand that their words and actions do hurt other people.

Situations: Experiencing stressful situations including those that involve loss, change, create personal humiliation, or involve getting into trouble at home, in school or with the law. These kinds of situations can serve as triggers for suicide.